DrPainMD:I don't get the outrage over income inequality. I make whatever money I make, and I live off of it. Over the course of my adult life, I've done many things to increase my income and prepare for my retirement. Why should I care how much other people have? Plus, the average person on Earth only makes about $10,000 per year; those who think income inequality is evil are in for a rude awakening (and a drastic lowering of their standard of living) if they ever achieve their goal of eliminating it.

It's not about caring how much other people have. It's caring about how they are getting it.

Never thought that I would see that phrase used on Fark, and you used it in the perfect context. Good job

Care to translate for those of us who don't speak jive?

HardAs aMutherfarker

I had to use Urban Dictionary.

Soooooooooo very white."Hee-Haw" white.Owning polka records white.Pat Boone singing Little Richard white."As a matter of fact, I do own a banjo!" white.

LOL! You all are interesting to me. I remember going home after my day on a corporate job and telling my man Black, "These are REAL white people. The kind you see on 'Friends'". I would study them. Their humor. Their likes and dislikes. Their passions. I think its hilarious when something bad happens and a white guy gives up the sarcastic, "Great job" or "This is super". LOL! I don;t know why.

CSB: My step kids have an African American father that they never see. We live in an upper middle class golf course neighborhood. We are raising the whitest black kids I have ever seen and I am not sure if I am doing them a favor or a disservice.

When people see them with just mom, no big deal. When we are all together (with my two wonder bread kids) we ALWAYS get asked if they are adopted.

Ok, have to put the jokes aside for this one.

Please, get that shiat out of your head and never consider it again. I don't care if you're black, white, or burgundy the important thing is that you are there for those kids. And if you think they're "acting white" it tells me that you're having an influence that is hopefully positive. It takes a man to raise someone else's children.

Dr Dreidel:DROxINxTHExWIND: LOL! You all are interesting to me. I remember going home after my day on a corporate job and telling my man Black, "These are REAL white people. The kind you see on 'Friends'". I would study them. Their humor. Their likes and dislikes. Their passions. I think its hilarious when something bad happens and a white guy gives up the sarcastic, "Great job" or "This is super". LOL! I don;t know why.

/I'd like to have intercourse with one of your women.//for science

I think we can arrange a trade. Do you mean specifically "white" (as in "not a Jewess"), or are my people kosher?

// I'll try to avoid the Long Islanders - no one wants ANOTHER short, whiny, brunette with a skewed perspective on life and fairness// apologies to those from LI, y'all get a horrible rap

LOL. No problem at all. Black people don't distinguish between white people and Jewish people. You're all white to us.

Never thought that I would see that phrase used on Fark, and you used it in the perfect context. Good job

Care to translate for those of us who don't speak jive?

HardAs aMutherfarker

I had to use Urban Dictionary.

Soooooooooo very white."Hee-Haw" white.Owning polka records white.Pat Boone singing Little Richard white."As a matter of fact, I do own a banjo!" white.

LOL! You all are interesting to me. I remember going home after my day on a corporate job and telling my man Black, "These are REAL white people. The kind you see on 'Friends'". I would study them. Their humor. Their likes and dislikes. Their passions. I think its hilarious when something bad happens and a white guy gives up the sarcastic, "Great job" or "This is super". LOL! I don;t know why.

Never thought that I would see that phrase used on Fark, and you used it in the perfect context. Good job

LOL. Don't let the smooth taste fool you. I'm from DC. I can hang with the best of them on here , but I can get ignorant as a mutherfarker, too. Thats why I always laugh when Farkers go internet gangster gangsta on me.

What, are you from Germantown or something?

I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. I think when they go ITG its more of an Al Capone/ John Gotti thing (gangster) than it is a Freeway Rick Ross/ Big Meech thing (gangsta).

Arkanaut:firefly212: A rising tide only lifts all boats if you're rich enough to have a boat... otherwise you just drown. That's the problem with the Reaganomics thinking that persists to this day.

I hate the way that aphorism is used to refer to Reaganomics -- Reagan basically raised the bigger, fancier boats at the expense of the dinghies and rowboats. I could make the same argument that a downward redistribution scheme like guaranteed basic income (you could even call it "trickle down"!) raises aggregate demand and therefore should be good for the whole economy, and thus "raises all boats", and so rich people should be for it.

These days, even if you're lucky enough to have a boat, the GOP is standing on the decks of progressively taller yachts throwing anvils at everything below deck height.

Arkanaut:firefly212: A rising tide only lifts all boats if you're rich enough to have a boat... otherwise you just drown. That's the problem with the Reaganomics thinking that persists to this day.

I hate the way that aphorism is used to refer to Reaganomics -- Reagan basically raised the bigger, fancier boats at the expense of the dinghies and rowboats. I could make the same argument that a downward redistribution scheme like guaranteed basic income (you could even call it "trickle down"!) raises aggregate demand and therefore should be good for the whole economy, and thus "raises all boats", and so rich people should be for it.

The aphorism is used to refer to Reaganomics because he used it on multiple occasions.

You certainly could make that argument. As for me, I think that pretty much everyone who works 40 hours a week or more should be guaranteed to make at least 20k a year. I think that the current minimum wage (one that allows for wages so low as to qualify for public assistance when working full time) effectively means that taxpayers are picking up the cost of minimum wage workers, distorting the costs of inputs, and subsequently distorting the price of products via information asymmetry. Welfare for employees is, more accurately put, welfare for employers.

firefly212:A rising tide only lifts all boats if you're rich enough to have a boat... otherwise you just drown. That's the problem with the Reaganomics thinking that persists to this day.

I hate the way that aphorism is used to refer to Reaganomics -- Reagan basically raised the bigger, fancier boats at the expense of the dinghies and rowboats. I could make the same argument that a downward redistribution scheme like guaranteed basic income (you could even call it "trickle down"!) raises aggregate demand and therefore should be good for the whole economy, and thus "raises all boats", and so rich people should be for it.

Do you know how many lily-white soccer kids, safely bubble-wrapped in mom's crossover as she ferries little Cayden, Jayden, Aiden, Maiden, and Lleyton from ballet class in Cabin John to rock-climbing class in Gaithersburg before grabbing a glass of Pinot with the gals in the Town Center you put in danger?

Dr Dreidel:firefly212: [img.fark.net image 470x447]Obama and his damned time machine...

Actually, from that graph it looks like we were on the way to fixing that inequality in the latter half of 2008 (the blue line bends down), when SOMETHING that occurred right around the start of 2009 reverses the trend.

GDP dropped in late 2008 because the economy was crashing... but MHI was also dropping still, and Median Net Worth was doing even worse... what happened was the economy got back on track, and continued to fark over everyone who wasn't at the very very top of it. A rising tide only lifts all boats if you're rich enough to have a boat... otherwise you just drown. That's the problem with the Reaganomics thinking that persists to this day.

Dr Dreidel:firefly212: [img.fark.net image 470x447]Obama and his damned time machine...

Actually, from that graph it looks like we were on the way to fixing that inequality in the latter half of 2008 (the blue line bends down), when SOMETHING that occurred right around the start of 2009 reverses the trend.

Wait. So American Thinker just admitted that income inequality started right at the same time as Obama took office? So, that means, Bush left Obama a little present? Because, obviously, Obama didn't have enough time to effect policy on Day 1...